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Hispanization Policies in Colonial Jujuy
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Hispanization Policies in Colonial Jujuy
Políticas de hispanización en el Jujuy colonial
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The aim of this article is to examine the manner in which the linguistic policy imposed by Spain on its American colonies through laws, royal decrees, ordinances, and provisions of the legal corpus of the Indies was implemented in Jujuy, Province of Tucumán, in the Viceroyalty of Peru.
In the process of colonization, the metropolis imposed its language, religion, and culture. Along with the conquerors came members of religious orders, who were entrusted with the evangelization and Hispanicization of the Indigenous population. Unfortunately, this aspect of the colonial history of Northern Argentina had not been addressed by historians of language or education, nor by civil or ecclesiastical historians, until well into the eighteenth century.
We lack reliable documentation on the implementation of language policies during the early colonial period. In archival documents from the end of that century, we found provisions issued by the central power that forced Indigenous people and Spaniards to speak only “Castilian” and prohibited them from using American languages.
The analysis of these texts was framed within Louis-Jean Calvet’s conceptualization (1997: 44) of the types of management that arise in linguistic situations: one derived from the social practices of speakers, and the other corresponding to governmental intervention in those practices. This double functioning was verified by comparing colonial historians’ descriptions of the linguistic behaviors adopted by the inhabitants in response to royal mandates with the coercive discourse of the documents studied, in which the Spanish Crown turned language into an instrument of domination.
In the process of colonization, the metropolis imposed its language, religion, and culture. Along with the conquerors came members of religious orders, who were entrusted with the evangelization and Hispanicization of the Indigenous population. Unfortunately, this aspect of the colonial history of Northern Argentina had not been addressed by historians of language or education, nor by civil or ecclesiastical historians, until well into the eighteenth century.
We lack reliable documentation on the implementation of language policies during the early colonial period. In archival documents from the end of that century, we found provisions issued by the central power that forced Indigenous people and Spaniards to speak only “Castilian” and prohibited them from using American languages.
The analysis of these texts was framed within Louis-Jean Calvet’s conceptualization (1997: 44) of the types of management that arise in linguistic situations: one derived from the social practices of speakers, and the other corresponding to governmental intervention in those practices. This double functioning was verified by comparing colonial historians’ descriptions of the linguistic behaviors adopted by the inhabitants in response to royal mandates with the coercive discourse of the documents studied, in which the Spanish Crown turned language into an instrument of domination.
Este artículo tiene por objeto relevar la modalidad con que se implementó en Jujuy, Provincia del Tucumán, en el Virreinato del Perú, la política lingüística impuesta por España en sus colonias americanas mediante leyes, cédulas, ordenanzas y disposiciones del corpus legal indiano. En el proceso de colonización, la Metrópolis instaló su lengua, su religión y su cultura. Con los conquistadores, vinieron religiosos a quienes se les confió la evangelización e hispanización de los aborígenes. Lamentablemente, este aspecto de la historia colonial del Norte Argentino no ha sido objeto de tratamiento por historiadores de la lengua o de la educación, ni por historiadores civiles o eclesiásticos hasta entrado el siglo XVIII. Carecemos de documentación fehaciente sobre la efectivización de políticas de la lengua durante la Colonia temprana. En documentos de archivo de fines del citado siglo, accedimos a disposiciones del poder central que obligaban a indios y españoles a hablar solo la “castilla”, prohibiéndoseles el uso de las lenguas americanas. El análisis de estos textos se enmarcó en la conceptualización de Louis-Jean Calvet (1997: 44) sobre los tipos de gestión que surgen ante situaciones lingüísticas: la derivada de las prácticas sociales de los hablantes y la correspondiente al intervencionismo gubernamental sobre esas prácticas. Este doble funcionamiento se constató confrontando la descripción de los historiadores coloniales sobre las conductas lingüísticas asumidas por los pobladores ante los mandatos reales y el discurso coercitivo de los documentos de estudio, en los que la Corona española hace de la lengua un instrumento de dominación.
Autor
Postigo de De Bedia, Ana María
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Derechos
Derechos de autor 2013 Ana María Postigo de De Bedia
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Relación
https://revistas.fhycs.unju.edu.ar/revistacuadernos/index.php/cuadernos/article/view/137/102
https://revistas.fhycs.unju.edu.ar/revistacuadernos/index.php/cuadernos/article/view/137/272
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spa
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Identificador
https://revistas.fhycs.unju.edu.ar/revistacuadernos/index.php/cuadernos/article/view/137
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Citación
Postigo de De Bedia, Ana María, “Hispanization Policies in Colonial Jujuy,” Repositorio - FHyCS - UNJu, consulta 22 de octubre de 2026, https://investigacion.fhycs.unju.edu.ar/repositorio-tesis/items/show/524.
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